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Enviroment Network Weekly (ENW) E-News – August 25, 2025

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AEMO Releases 2025 Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO)

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has released the 2025 Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) for the National Electricity Market (NEM), setting out a 10-year reliability […]

Clean Energy Regulator Permanently Suspends Registered Person

The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has permanently suspended the registration of a company under section 30A of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000. The decision took […]

Updated Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings

The Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council (ECMC) released the Update to the Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings, replacing the 2019 Trajectory and its Addendum. The […]

NGER 2024–25: Calculators Updated

The Clean Energy Regulator has updated the NGER 2024–25 calculators and reminded responsible emitters of upcoming obligations. NGER registration and operational control nominations are due 31 […]

ACCC proposes to authorise national Soft Plastics Circularity Scheme

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a draft determination proposing to authorise a new Soft Plastics Circularity Scheme, enabling major supermarkets and industry […]

Climate Change Authority – 2025 Issues Paper

The Climate Change Authority is seeking input to its 2025 Annual Progress Report to inform the Minister’s 4th Annual Climate Change Statement to Parliament. Submissions close […]

Australian Industrial Chemical Introduction Scheme (AICIS) Annual Declarations

The Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (formerly NICNAS) has opened submissions for the 2024–25 annual declaration.    The annual declaration confirms that any industrial chemicals introduced […]

Recycling Victoria issues seven Waste-to-Energy cap licences

Recycling Victoria, the Victorian Government’s recycling regulator, has issued seven thermal Waste-to-Energy (WtE) cap licences totalling 2.35 million tonnes per annum of permitted waste processing capacity. […]

EPA Victoria fines contractor for mud tracked onto public roads

EPA Victoria has issued a $5,298 infringement to a construction contractor after officers observed trucks tracking sediment onto Sneydes Road and Hoppers Lane, Point Cook. The […]

Tyre Dumping Conviction Leads To $90,201 In Penalties

The Wodonga Magistrates’ Court has convicted an individual of multiple offences under Victoria’s Environment Protection Act 2017 after an illegally stockpiled cache of waste tyres, estimated […]

Chemical manufacturer ordered to pay $300,000 over Elwood/St Kilda beach spill

EPA Victoria has secured civil penalties against a chemical manufacturer after a 28,000-litre spill of an industrial chemical reached Elwood and St Kilda beaches in January […]

NSW EPA Consults On Tighter Chemical Limits For Land-Applied Biosolids

The NSW EPA has opened consultation on a review of limits for metals and chemicals in biosolids applied to land to ensure beneficial use, with minimal […]

NSW Funds Regional Landfill Upgrades

The NSW EPA awarded $5.9 million for 35 projects under Round 5 of the Landfill Consolidation and Environmental Improvements Program and signalled the separate Joint Procurement […]

NSW EPA Consultation On Draft Acid Sulfate Soil Resource Recovery Order and Exemption: Comment sought

The NSW EPA is seeking comment the draft Acid Sulfate Soil Resource Recovery Order and Exemption. The proposal sets a state-wide framework for the safe, beneficial […]

Small business sustainability support workshop

The South Australian Government is hosting a free Small Business Sustainability Support workshop in Stirling on Tuesday 26 August 2025. The session is designed to help […]

EPA WA recommends approval for Port Hedland Iron Project – Stage 1

EPA WA released EPA Report 1789 – Port Hedland Iron Project (Stage 1) recommending the proposal may be implemented subject to conditions. The report has been […]

EPA WA to proceed with review of North West Shelf proposal

EPA WA accepted amendments to Woodside’s Proposed Browse to North West Shelf Development, determining the amended proposal is of substantially the same character as the proposal […]

National End-of-Life Tyres Options – project report released

The Western Australian Government has published the National End-of-Life Tyres Options – Project Report, outlining issues with end-of-life tyres and related products and assessing policy solutions, […]

Hydrogen Transport Pilot Plant Opened In WA

WA Energy and Decarbonisation Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson opened Hydrilyte Technology Pilot Plant in Kwinana. The pilot demonstrates a local technology intended to make hydrogen storage and […]

Queensland Future Timber Plan: Comment sought

The Queensland Government has released the draft Queensland Future Timber Plan (QFTP) for public consultation, setting out a 25-year strategy for the State’s forestry and timber […]

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